WoW Devs Still Hiding BIG Secret About Next Patch... 10.2.5 & The Promise of More | The Weekly Reset

[@QuietCavan2]

As a mostly solo player who really just cares about the story line, follower dungeons sound AMAZING!!!

[@Zeus1845]

same super excited

[@zriku1]

really hope i can do mythic+ with followers for practice

[@chaselevinson7950]

Honestly, this may be enough to get me back playing WoW

[@chrisj320ac3]

​@@chaselevinson7950saaaame. I missed Legion, came back and quit bfa, came back and quit shadowlands VERY early in the expansion, and I have not played since. I tuned into this blizzcon and I'm ngl, Metzen SOLD me on it.

[@gromoffinland4990]

This is most def. usefull training ground for me (a solo dps whore/ in group content) to give tanking and healing a chance without feeling too much pressure.

[@fnordcola3226]

Honestly, I think one of the healthiest things for the game about follower dungeons is that they look non-trivially *harder* than normal runs with other players. The fact that the AI dps characters kind of suck and aren't just deleting bosses in 15 seconds means you actually see and have an opportunity to learn various of the enemies' mechanics. They're still very simple and gently tuned versions of same compared to higher dungeon difficulties, but they could feel like an actual stepping stone to harder dungeons in a way that normal (and even heroic outside the first week or two of an expansion) currently don't.

[@NiloAzzurro]

You know what? You are right! 😀

[@radenkovic2856]

@@NiloAzzurro i dont think so, cause when im running a something up to a +12 waycrest right now(i need the trinket), the witches arent taken out of the candles 75% of the time. even if i write it in party chat. I believe people who want to learn, learn under any circumstances and people who dont, just dont.

[@chrisj320ac3]

​@radenkovic2856 go play FFXIV and get proven wrong.

[@Supaawesomeification]

As a returning player with A LOT to catch up on, this makes me really happy. Also feels like a great chance to try tanking. I’ve always wanted to learn but didn’t wanna make other people suffer through me learning how to do it right

[@skurvey1101]

Works for Ff14. Get to learn your class on your time. They don't burn through the bosses and you usually have to do the mechanics right or you wipe.

[@kenziepilling3341]

I think what would REALLY make Amirdrassil work is if they created a new starting zone experience for new Night Elf characters. It would help make the new zone a place of constant use by the playerbase, and would help to re-create the attachment that we felt to Teldrassil

[@Yonteh]

I'm just sad it's not on Kalimdor :(

[@ren_9353]

@@Yonteh Same. I understand why the Night Elves would call this their new home, since so many of their lost souls are now inside of that world tree, basically. But I honestly don't like that their new main city is now on the Dragon Isles. I would have loved it, if it was still on Kalimdor :C But honestly, I am just happy that we do get a new Night Elf capital. I REALLY missed having one.

[@snozzmcberry2366]

Follower dungeons makes me think of something I've been pondering lately.. It's an expansion-sized thing but.. WoW needs a game-wide story mode. A complete game-wide overhaul to allow you to solo-experience the stories of all expansions, including dungeons & raids. A streamlined way to be guided through all story beats at your leisure. It's *technically* possible to do this now, but it's rough and messy and depends entirely on the player figuring out what stories exist where and how to get to them

[@BlackOrc]

wow needs a new story+ mode, and guide players better through the old stories while leveling

[@SunniestAutumn]

I think you want WoW to deliver something it was never designed to deliver.

[@BlackOrc]

@@SunniestAutumn oh for sure, doesnt mean they can work on it over time tho. same as warbands were never going to be a thing they can work on this too. idk if its possible but sure would be nice to have

[@somestrangescotsman]

A story based levelling mode, with bite sized dungeons and raids for levelling makes a lot of sense for newbies.

[@Khadharphak]

I said the same on another video, I'd like to see something akin to FF14's story, maybe as an optional choice for chromie time, something that guides you from vanilla all the way to the present prominent story quests and capping off each expansion with solo story raids that let you team up with the important NPCs of the time to take down the big bads of each expansion, like joining Tirion and the other Argent crusade leaders to fight Lich King, because a lot of new players never see that content unless they seek it out and it's a cakewalk cause they're max level and can oneshot most legacy raid bosses.

[@murphybegood]

Please Blizzard allow follower dungeons to be available on all dungeons going forward. It would be brilliant to be able to replay old xpacs and have the ability to complete older dungeons that are part of those leveling zones. The amount of times I've been leveling a new character using Timewalking and I'd get to the end of the zone story and then have to queue for ages in the hope players will stay and complete the dungeon.

[@liamdavies2823]

you definitely should not be able to push keys over 15 with npcs in follower dungeons though, removes the whole point of m+ (playing with and depending on others)

[@SoundBottles]

@@liamdavies2823there’s no way it’s going to be anything but normal dungeons

[@godlygamer911]

​@@liamdavies2823😂 how dumb are you to think it was gonna be m+?

[@phaerius8265]

Be careful asking for this, FFXIV started to cut interesting mechanics from its dungeons in order to make npc dungeon parties work.

[@Jay-pi5vq]

I definitely see the follower dungeon creating a much more accessible pipeline for new players (and returning players) to jump into the content with confidence. I know for myself I have always had a lot of anxiety when doing dungeons/raids I've never done before. I'm very much a 'learn by doing' kind of person so having the option to practice running new content in a no risk environment means I am going to be much more comfortable queuing with random people.

[@midnull6009]

" I know for myself I have always had a lot of anxiety when doing dungeons/raids I've never done before" that is why bliz introduced LFR and dungeon journals...so that you can learn the mechanics before going into normal/heroic raids and mythic dungeons.. There are also youtube vids explaining step by step mechanics! What MORE do you want???

[@elmoonburst]

Another positive for follow dungeons. As an RPer, it makes current content dungeons available to RP in with a smaller group, as now you can clear the instance in character with maybe one or two other people, at your own pace, stopping for emotes and dialogue as well.

[@sael91]

This is a big W for RPers. Right now the only ways to do something like this is with either a full group, or to go back and do the dungeon again when you and overpower it. Being able to do it on level with some npcs to make it modestly challenging without being a slog should hopefully be way more immersive

[@Queldonus]

I hadn’t considered this. That’s an AMAZING secondary benefit.

[@wodmarach]

If you did do warbands in dungeons I'd have Chromie pop in at the start going "I thought you might like help from familiar faces so I found you some friends in the timelines" as your warband members appear from a portal.

[@Queldonus]

That also solves the XP and loot issue. They are from another timeline, so only your active character gets anything. This idea makes me want it more.

[@Draenal]

Love this solution!

[@TheSilverwing999]

Love this but I can already see people crying about them copying ff14 "again"

[@balazsszucs7055]

@@TheSilverwing999 those people should get used to it. WoW is nowhere near the trailblazer it once was. It is inevitable for the next few expansions to be filled with features that other MMOs already did.

[@ZavhallaTV]

​@@TheSilverwing999ppl from ff14 crying is irrelevant. Only the wow playerbase matters for WoW devs, as it should be.

[@datlobstaguygenius1792]

The follower dungeons is what excites me most, could easily imagine a situation where we do dungeons with Thrall and Anduin and Alleria etc in TWW

[@faldarith]

I just want somewhere to explore the damnable dungeon without getting called a noob because I only spent three hours watching dungeon routes

[@KevinchuWylde]

It would be so funny if Anduin sucked at healing

[@catrinastars]

@@KevinchuWylde lol he can’t currently use the light right now, so I imagine he wouldn’t be a healer at all. No, the cinematic didn’t fix the problem. It only started him down on the path to doing so. He has a long way to go.

[@Warpali]

New collection tab, Follower Dungeon Heroes! Can make your dream team and always have Time Warp CDs etc! That would be heckin awesome! Although I think for the purpose of the story, first time would need to be a locked selection. Replaying can be with your own team.

[@Henrikstinker]

Could be cool if they did this retroactively too. So characters relevant to the questing zone would appear. It's completely unneccessary, and wouldn't change anything other than the look and names of your party members, but would be neat. Like if you're doing Razorfen Downs and Mankrik shows up

[@MelkromisteinWeeb]

The Gnomes still not having Gnomeregan back: " :( "

[@michaelmajor1909]

Kind of feel like mechagnomes and gnomes now live in mechagon

[@zyongli5760]

Something that I also think is brilliant about WHO the followers in the follower dungeon are is that a fresh brand new player went through the new player experience, so they are already familiar with Captain Garrick and Shuja etc. I bet it would be nice for them to feel as though their new comrades they adventured with are right there for the journey with them as they explore new dungeons.

[@robusmc1713]

I really think they will be great to learn how to Tank and Heal, I'm excited for this more than anything they ever put in the game

[@Mode-_-Geek]

That is so true. I don't even want to try tanking in WoW because if you make one mistake you would get kicked.

[@midnull6009]

@@Mode-_-Geek ...not true, that's why you do NORMAL runs, LFR, guild runs, watch youtube vids, look at dungeon journals... If you want to tank an m5 and not know the fights...yeah no, nobody's going to help you... With m0's you will get some leanway...but don't expect ppl to teach you when you have SOOO many resources at your fingertips. When ppl run m2+ they expect you to know fights. I've kicked a dps who queued for an m8 that didn't know fights...didn't even bother doing it on normal...like what? Hell, there are even addons like DBM and Weak Auras that tell you WHEN to taunt, WHAT to do, WHEN to do it, WHEN/WHAT is the next big attack! I mean...just how much hand holding do you need????

[@Mode-_-Geek]

@@midnull6009 I understand what you are saying. But if you simply don't know the route of a dungeon you get kicked for being to slow or needing some help in direction even. I get it you can look up guides. I am just talking about learning in the most basic way when you don't have time to watch a ton of youtube videos and simply want to play. I stick to dps because it is easy and I can just get in there with my mods and not really have to question much. It is easier to do that on FFXIV because people will litterally throw advice out at you and be like np if you mess up. But the few times I tried to do the same with tank on WoW, people kicked before saying how I even screwed up. It put a bad taste in my mouth and makes simply trying feel like a waste of time, especially if I get halfway through a dungeon and then get kicked. I am a chicken who likes no pressure, so I just look forward to a solo way of learning tank is all. That is how I learn best, is by doing. It is just a lot of stress is all I am saying and for me I would rather just avoid it at this point, stick to dps, and have fun.

[@midnull6009]

@@Mode-_-Geek I dunno man...there will always be assholes but not everybody is that way. Especially in normals and heroics. In mythics it's a different story...but even in a low key whey probability wouldn't kick you cuz it's not worth the effort of finding new ppl especially tanks or heals...and you can still make it with 1 bad dps so...

[@AceofHearth]

The only things that could outshine the follower dungeon are Tuskarr playable race and enabling other classes for Dracthyr.

[@Queldonus]

I don’t want Dracthyr as other classes. I want the other drakonids as playable. Giant buff dragon warrior tank? Yes please.

[@HugoPCarvalho]

Hope we get Tuskarr, It's more likely than player house in a minor patch

[@djnausea975]

This@@Queldonus

[@Frostingale]

TUSKARR DK LET'S GO?!@@HugoPCarvalho

[@CaliKrome]

Glad to see they are finally reusing the brilliant AI they had in the island expeditions! And the banter that those toons had was great and just added into the joy and gameplay!

[@linaori]

I will probably never play follower dungeons myself. However, the technology behind this is such a cool addition that we might see much more interesting content in the future! Possibly in form of scenarios or maybe guild halls with NPC raids? 👀

[@jacobpeters7837]

I absolutely think this is a great idea. I think followers should come with the player for everything! Quests in the world, dungeons up to heroic (Not m+) and lfr. The player being able to learn the fights through expierence rather than going with other players will absolutely encourage those who do NOT do any multiplayer content to do some.

[@santiagopeck]

I'd say up to m0, at that point people can actually learn the mechanics of the dungeons and see how punisjing it is to not follow it.

[@xecelus]

Dungeon Siege 2 worked this way. Up to 3 characters and you could switch the main in the party even during combat.

[@ZavhallaTV]

​@@santiagopecki think above m0 and bellow m+2 is adequate. Newer players need to experience the timer and some afixes in order to acclimate to higher difficulties.

[@TastyScotch]

Ive honestly been wanting and waiting for follower dungeon since Exiles reach came out 😂 and i totally agree about using follower dungeon as a way to experience the story, especially of the older stuff. I skipped WoD, and everytime i run that dungeon with guldan i always have to skip the cinematic… ive still never seen it 😅

[@TheBrillohead16]

I believe evoker has a cooldown on "take flight" because it's also starts you with an upward flap, while a normal dragon "mount up" does not. The 10 second delay guarantees you have at least one vigor.

[@ElKabong3345]

wish it came with regular flight mode with it. Like I don't even care if it isn't regular flying, I'd be fine if it was Zen Flight speed like with Monks.

[@ColdCassidy]

they should also make Follower Raids, so you can do those 1 expansion late Raids without having to form groups just because you cannot get past 1 boss soloing

[@stormstrider1990]

That would be a perfect alternative to LFR, for us who can't get into actual raids, but are tired of long queue times, and toxic or stupid players.

[@icewoly2689]

Yep this, as someone whos only does PVP but still enjoys the story, it sucks how at the end of the campaign i cant finish up the story line or have to go through the hell of LFR (and have to wait 3 or 4 weeks after patch release). Even if it gives no loot and you can just see the raid and finish off the story would be brilliant.

[@Trevan2412]

I think we're missing something behind the idea of the reduced dragonriding speed. The game is only as big as the time it takes to traverse it. If everything was larger, the relative speed would be smaller. Players keep asking for a larger world but also faster ways to traverse it, which is very contradictory when you think about it, because these things are basically opposites when it comes to a virtual environment. In other words, there are two ways you can make the world feel larger (which is what players want): Making bigger zones or increase travel times. And they can't exactly enlarge the old world. I think the reduced speed is totally fine, I wouldn't even mind if it was smaller than that.

[@spxcex]

A bigger world just LOOKS bigger. What are you on about? Just because I can also travel the hypothetical bigger zone on my hypothetical faster mount in a shorter amount of time, doesn't mean the Zone will feel smaller. When I dismount and run around to do things I'm still as slow as ever, and I'll look tiny compared to everything around me. It will just feel more real. Instead of having every square inch taken up by quest objectives or mobs, have it feel like an actual landscape, where there are areas in between objectives where there's nothing but landscape to explore and get lost in.

[@Reiner_Miller]

That's why we need World revamp or expansion of lands. (Same territories but bigger with bigger settlements and cities like Suramar or Boralus)

[@willythemailboy2]

"Size of the world" also applies in terms of quest areas overlapping. There's space between areas for just null space or possible future content.

[@kevinmshields]

I was just testing it out on PTR - in smaller areas, like cities, it can feel TOO fast. You really get a sense for just how much smaller old world maps are comparatively

[@tovoklore6356]

The speed reduction could also partly be for technical reasons as well. In the PTR I have experienced moments when ability inputs and vigor regen became unresponsive as if I had disconnected only I hadn't. I think the server fell behind on my character's status updates and was having to spend a number of server ticks to catch back up. This is something I haven't experienced on the Dragon Isles content.

[@Ancawikami]

Follower Dungeons are exactly what I need. I LOVE it!

[@sebonesiful]

I hope they add single Boss arenas like strikes or trials for specific bosses in the story in the future.

[@Queldonus]

I miss those from the past. Enter the lair, clear some trash (maybe a mini boss or two) and have your showdown with the raid boss.

[@orly2663]

Demon Hunters: "Are these wings a joke to you?"

[@Catherea]

Forgotten about just like nelf paladins

[@spxcex]

Hurts 🥲

[@zimattack9994]

Yes yes they are

[@Jucimon]

I wish monks could do dynamic flying too, but like a Dragon ball character.

[@zimattack9994]

@@Jucimon well they have the peace fart cloud to fly

[@nightgalestorm58]

Follower dungeons is such a cool thing ,it will help so much learning new specs and seeing more of the storyline :D

[@gromoffinland4990]

Yes!

[@silverdarkhawk2539]

I wish the Followers we had in Legion Order Halls can fill the dungeon roles using this kind of feature just to make them relevant, the followers from BFA Mission Tables or the Covernant Soulbinds in Shadowlands would sound cool.

[@RiotSmurf]

oop we will have to be careful as healers, that NPC tank will give us false expectations. Like a tank willing to wait for us to get mana LOL

[@tenshikaren]

Having healed the entire expansion, it's a false expectation to NEED mana before around M+12 and above (honestly I didn't bother carrying mana potions or water until +14 and Dawn of the Infinite). You kinda have to intentionally over-heal in almost anything lower, even if your party takes 100% avoidable damage (let's assume they avoid 1 shot mechanics, can't heal that anyways).

[@tlyon5196]

OMG i absolutely love your idea of your alts playing the follower dungeons! 😍

[@MattwosRandomNonContent]

16:06 I didn't play the FFXIV version of this much but I did like the banter between the twins in The Grand Cosmos when I tried and failed to do it there, with Alphinaud jokingly (least I hope it was a joke) suggesting they use Leannan Sith's leaves for tea and Alisaie was all "Why are you like this?"

[@TheHawkinsGrove]

Don't worry too much about just now learning about those flight paths in that dragon riding dungeon, Tali. I learned the exact same time you did.... by watching you! 😛

[@Nathanyel]

I got reminded that I noticed them back in 10.0, but then forgot about thwm :D

[@Jubikus]

I feel like the reactions to the whole Fallower dungeon thing is hinting more towards Fallower raids so you can actually experience an entire expansion.

[@Patrick_0n]

Agree. Won't have to depend on douchebags to do content.

[@Ner0sys7]

Having your warband members in the AI dungeon run sounds fantastic. They could make it work if they just had the characters as a "transmog" type appearance with general class skills of their type, right? So a party member that could be an Enh. Shaman would be a screenshot of my alt (also Enh shaman) but with scaled iLvL etc. They can't receive any gear or xp. That's game breaking imo. Also ALSO: Running a storyline dungeon with major WoW characters as party members. Be part of the main story. That would be amazing.

[@MortimerFolchert]

The Problem is, how do you decides what Members of your Warband show up. I have currently 56 Chars and 26 on Max. Level. Yeah, there's the new Campfire-Feature were you can put in your 4 favorite Characters to be able to login faster, but if it's those 4 to show up, does that mean I need to play someone not on the campfire, and what if there are only DPS at the Campfire. I don't think you can use your Alts as NPCs.

[@Ner0sys7]

@@MortimerFolchert That's a good point, Maybe you'll get to designate an alt as a "follower" type thing like they've done with missions in the past? We'd need to see warbands fleshed out a little more to speculate.

[@odinugm4898]

using self flight during the races is a huge advantage. The dragon take up 1/3 of your screen and the wings often block obstacles. (imo)

[@dustin_ofc735]

This is the earliest I've ever been to a reset!

[@Romanthony2007]

I never realised till now, that Blizzard misspelled Draenei On the road map, Im hoping that this is a hint to maybe finally getting the heritage sets for Trolls. Also hoping that just like how they handed the "Re take the undercity" questline they make the Glineas one able to be doen on both horde and alliance Also Hoping that the Follower Dungeons is Testing ground for Warbands, Like in The war Within we will be able to do Follower dungeons with our alts hoping it expands to heroics too, but doesnt go beyond that

[@Lionimia]

Why would misspelling Draenei be a hint to Troll heritage?

[@RiotSmurf]

The one random time where i am online a minute after a video releases. It's weird to see the comment section empty and the like numbers before they blow up.

[@ryananderson1096]

Like many, I left WoW in 9.1. I have not regretted it, but I've been lightly keeping up things to see how the game changes. The news from Dragonflight has all been positive, but nothing to actually entice me back. Honestly, Follower Dungeons seems like a feature that might actually make me give me reason to check the game out again. It would let my casual friends try to learn healing and tanking away from the pressures of pugs, which would increase the variety of ways that we can play together.

[@cyberbanshee]

I still hope that Amirdrassil will not be just another world tree, but an old world revamp tree. And it's influence will gradually spread to other continents. After all, this tree revamped Draconic Aspects

[@Valfara770]

For using your alts in the follower dungeons, a way for it to not break anything and not using thousands of developer hours might be to not change anything about the regular followers but their looks and names. So they just look and are called like your alts but nothing else changes.

[@kennethmalafy8012]

They should do something big. They have this big, three xpac story- they need to kick it off in a big way to show us it is not all just talk.

[@ratatoskrnuts6354]

I actually think they should do a bunch of small but important things to prove that they're really working to improve the game.

[@kennethmalafy8012]

They have been doing that all year. Unfortunately, while great for the game (and the players still engaged)- those type of changes do not really bring players back. Not many have returned despite that fact that Blizz has made and done more changes this year than ever before. It's obvious that Blizz is trying to bring back some of the players they lost, announcing a set of small but important things has yet to bring them back, so they are trying a different approach. @@ratatoskrnuts6354

[@roninhare9615]

Before they even announced Ai dungeons, I said the one thing that would set warbands over the top for me would be to allow your warbands to run ai dungeons and the option to call in 1 of your warband members to open world while you quest or farm. Let those players who have dedicated hours upon hours into their alts to be showcased on one screen in all their glory. Nothing would be cooler than to see a handful of my characters sharing the same screen for the first time.

[@johnmorrison1221]

Wonder if the follower dungeons will be a test for follower raids in the future.

[@Spidahman4283]

I got money for the super sneaky hidden info being a Ruby Sanctum style raid (and rot based dungeon as well) to tie between 10.2.5 and the prepatch story stuff, allowing for Magni to come back into the story and then the prepatch is us going to find Anduin leading in to the cinematic with Thrall and Anduin in Silithus

[@prestonjenkins92]

I get people want the new tree in Kalimdor, but I also think, that it’s fitting that it’s near the emerald dream, which by the way has portals to Ashenvale and Feralas, where the heaviest night elf population would be. Easy access to rebuild everywhere.

[@FancyTophatDude]

follower dungeons could also let you switch out followers for those quest requirement dungeons and replace them with lore relevant npcs that give extra context for the dungeon, have special dialogue etc. could make for an awesome experience.

[@robind.2290]

As a long time warcraft player, I am super excited that the dev team is really trying to tie up the multiple lose ends of the storylines. They are obviously working on making the expansions meld together cohesively. Also, the thoughtful addition of more solo player content is totally awesome! I am looking forward to all future developments in both retail and classic.

[@Svanir.80]

I think they're making the old zone dynamic flying a bit slower because those zones weren't originally designed for it, in terms of the way the visuals/details load. All we need is for us to be zooming along at 900% and get a ton of the displacement disconnects that used to plague us back in the day (made playing Demon Hunters early on very challenging).

[@juros1545]

I thought the most important to be added feature for Tali would be playable tuskarr - so I guess Blizzard can cancel that development branch :D

[@xCanadianXpride]

A thought I had while watching this is what if the potential secret feature is connected to the world tree and potentially a new night elf home/starting zone experience where you get to see the destruction of the world tree and the birth of the new one played out through some cinematics and the starting zone story is that of the night elves building a new home in Ohn'ahran Plains.

[@Xirokox]

Now do the same AI for raids and replace LFR with this system. LFR is already doing raid with NPC so there would be no change. Plus no que times so I think win-win.

[@Ignis-Sanctus]

Vigor regeneration is why there's a 10s CD. Otherwise, you could effectively cheat the one vigor needed to take off.

[@blackvenom7476]

I’m smelling a major character death coming

[@Joe-pm9xv]

Hopefully at the hands of iridikron or xalatath

[@lanidotexe]

Absolutely hopping on the hype train for follower dungeons 🤩 they sound SO exciting as a mostly solo pretty casual player - it can be so intimidating joining a group of players when you haven’t played in a while and this would just take all that stress away 🙏

[@Kazanov1936]

I loved the ending cinematic, DF was never an epic expansion, it was all about scalies and family

[@Whalebelly2239]

What an absolute baller cut from the BG3 music to the Taliesin and Evitel outro music, seemless and no key change, 10/10 love your show

[@albertgeorgy6827]

I really wish blizzard could leave all this soft modern writing behind in the next expansion. I hope in the next big cinematic we see is Anduin on the battlefield with a manly looking face and bodies all around him saying cool stuff. I want that epic feeling again and not some personal therapy bs

[@LoopStricken]

I too was once thirteen years old.

[@albertgeorgy6827]

@@LoopStricken you regressed if you like this "family friendly" story. We are supposed to learn and develop a taste for quality over the years

[@abydosianchulac2]

You're expecting him to be his father, even though most of his character development is about how he's not like his father?

[@albertgeorgy6827]

​@@abydosianchulac2the level of soy is 100. He used to be like 50-60. Just too.much

[@SECTOR-si2cb]

18:43 In love with Jordan Powers' choice of reaction image here. Really digging whatever that vibe is

[@mercy1990]

Really looking forward to these follower dungeons. It's going to be so nice to be able to learn the dungeons before joining other players in the higher level dungeons.

[@jacklogansmith7646]

21:40 Absolutely perfect use of the “Madness at the Darkmoon Faire” theme from Hearthstone.

[@robertt4116]

You're making me want to do a fourth playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 with that music in the background

[@EmilyEBoehm]

I have been a solo player for the entire time I’ve played WoW- (on and off since 2008, yikes!) and only just started queuing on dungeon finder in late shadowlands. I love running old dungeons by myself, but when there’s a story quest that requires you to go to a current dungeon and get something specific, I’m absolutely gutted. This would change everything for me! I’m so thrilled!

[@BattleF08]

My wish for secret feature would be Amirdrassil producing acorns that bring back the souls of those lost at Teldrassil as playable dryads. Now *that* would be the pay-off for the Night Elves that makes the path of Renewal the right choice. And throw in Centaur for the Horde.

[@thefrisianviking28]

That will never happen. How do you plan to fit one of those on a flying mount?

[@BattleF08]

That's the neat thing. You don't. The Centaur are friends with a Wild God of wind. The Wild God of Winged Creatures is heavily involved in the protection of Amirdrassil. Giving these races an airwalking ability to activate to be their own mount, would be the way to go.

[@ricktifierful]

Regarding the soar question, I haven't tried it but I'm assuming the soar spell itself doesn't consume vigor, and the cd is to balance that

[@chrislebleu1625]

Really happy that they're adding story difficulty dungeon NPCs!! I hope they add the them for older content as well!

[@nigelhirth2181]

Follower dungeons will do FAR less damage to the social fabric of WoW than the toxic players already have inflicted.

[@animeyay4]

I had an injury and it made everything harder so I stopped doing a lot of social content then I got the level boost and made a tank paladin. It was a bit pay to win with the gear, but I felt unstoppable and it gave me the confidence to do group content again. I run lfr on three chars and do dungeons again for the first time since Cata. I feel these follow dungeons will add to the pool for social dungeons due to my own experience.

[@vampocalpyse]

I really like how the realm team looked at FF 14 and just said yea we'll do that.

[@willhumason8213]

Completely agree. I've been on the r/wownoobs subreddit for a long time and the #1 thing new players have complained about is queuing for dungeons - for the exact reasons you stated; Don't understand what's going on, what their role should be, why no one is talking, why everyone goes so fast through. This new system is *proof* the developers have an understanding on what it's like to start wow as a new player and show's they're committed to working on things to fix it.

[@WrecklessMEDIC]

I would 1000% only do follower dungeons if I could progress from Normal to Heroic and even Mythic versions. The ability to run dungeons with 1 or 2 close friends/family, or even do them solo, and not have to suffer the general toxicity of group finders would be amazing!! Heck, throw follower raids in the mix too and I'd be extremely happy! :D

[@christabelle__]

That's what delves will be for - you and the couple people you play with. And they will offer the same kinds of rewards, it sounds like!

[@WrecklessMEDIC]

@@christabelle__ Delves sound more like Torghast or those annoying Insanity things from BfA. I have no interest in that kind of thing. :)

[@vhampyre01]

Holy crap! They're finally doing it. I've been asking for this for years. I'm so excited for follower dungeons. :)

[@Ghostie34]

Hearing tal talk about raid and guild stuff feels bittersweet because I’m fairly new to wow and I have been struggling to find a new guild that is fun to play with but nonetheless I really do appreciate these videos. If player housing is coming, I’m excited 😊

[@KairosVI]

it has been 0 days since tali was convinced player housing is coming

[@craigleonard4071]

I'm 100% behind player housing lite being introduced in 10.2.7. It's the perfect precursor to warbands. I also agree, that it won't be full-scale player housing. It will be small, single room apartments (a la FFXIV), not necessarily in every major city, but quite possibly Stormwind / Orgrimmar as a 'welcome home from the Dragon Isles' type thing, or Valdrakken as a 'thank you for brining the Aspects back'.

[@Knight1029]

Nice use of Baldur's Gate 3 music at the end. On a side note I would love a Warcraft game like BG3.

[@janeokeson-harlow4125]

Go explore Gilneas now - it's bigger than you think. The insides of some of those buildings are beautiful & there is a 'hidden' underground (escape) tunnel there as well.

[@Noznatation]

Now what about instead of random chars from you warband - it drew from random characters from people on your friendlist. - That would sort the issue with specs and such - and would still add some fun novelty.

[@Bailey-the-Fruitbat]

Gonna guess the ten second limit on Evokers being able to use soar immediately is to force pvpers to stay grounded after swooping down onto a player lol

[@Saimeren]

So what's going to happen with Gilneas then? Is this Alliance capital going to be a neutral zone where Hordies are welcome to just wander around at will? Seems silly. Or is it going to turn into an Alliance capital city and as soon as a Horde player turns in their final quest all the city guards jump on them and they get kicked out forever? That seems silly too.

[@pairaka984]

Introducing player housing in a later patch at the end of an expansion makes perfect sense. It would be a way of testing it out and letting players learn about it without having to compete with the new content of an expansion, and clear up the drought that many people complain about at the end of an expansion. Plus, it perfectly sets up the next expac to be full of new things to do (if it’s like Wildstar’s housing) since the things to put in that housing would most likely be available in all kinds of content (I see a bunch of stuff being available through Renown). So yeah, maybe they have been deflecting about housing all this time because they were actually working on it. And what better time to introduce it than when the kaldorei get a new home?

[@donnegan14]

You say that they didn't mention follower dungeons at Blizzcon, but if you think about it they did. Delves. You get a follower NPC (for the first season it's Brann) who will run the Delve with you and you can spec him to be Tank, Healer, or DPS.

[@aidonis98]

I can watch cinematics without coming back to a vote kick? Wow, can't believe it took a decade.

[@jordanthompson5696]

Wtf was that utterly beautiful music as soon as you mentioned warband follower dungeons?!?!?! I MUST know!

[@ricardbossle]

Follower dungeons its such a great feature. I'll finally try healing and tanking!

[@hiddendanger1]

Now, I don't have to get treated badly while learning how to tank and heal 🎉 That is a win. Hoping they get follower dungeons across all expansions so you can really go through the old dungeons since those queues are dead 🙏

[@nutcrackit7396]

Follower dungeons should definitely be expanded to past expansion dungeons and raids. Let us turn on chromie time at max level and bam you suddenly got a large amount of content for players to do whenever without making them have to try and get a group together.

[@self-discovery-official]

The 10 seconds cd could have something to do with the virgor regain. You jump up in the air on click where you need to press spacebar with a real dragon mount. So if you are out of virgor you could land down and instantly juse soar again where dragon mount users need to wait... I hope you know what I mean :D

[@desroth]

With player housing all I can say is that it would be an interesting feature to keep people's attention until the next expac comes out, which is going to be half a year to 3/4 a year away. Not that I think its coming either, but this would be a good time to do it if they wanted to push it out.

[@MegaChickenfish]

14:20 Still hoping they incorporate that idea. It'd mainly involve adding some new campaign quests and follower dungeon versions of key story raids. They've got the mechanics needed to make it work in-game now with 10.2.5.

[@CalestoBella]

I have been levelling up a pally. The queues for Deadmines popped in 6mins. All new players find out very quickly if you want your gear to keep up you need to do dungeons while levelling.

[@n-rage531]

Holy WoW, Taliesin. My warband characters in my follower dungeon would be so Fn awesome. We need to make this happen now!

[@mg8565]

I am not a fan of Amirdrassil being the new Nelf capital, just yet. There are several reasons, but primarily it has to do with the fact the Dragon Isles are not part of the base world map or even available in the new player experience, but Nelfs will be. Yes, I realize Nelfs can start in Amirdrassil and portal their way to some other place for questing, but that's a huge disconnect in my mind and I'm unable to see the sense of it when their historical lands and cultural ties will be on another continent. It feels like an abandonment of Kalimdor, which I'm not ready to accept. I'm super curious how this will all work out. It's like...Pandaren not being able to level in Pandaria. I hate it.

[@firstGrunt]

Those 9 responses are the type of gm/player contact that blizz had been missing for so long, its small, yet big, lighthearted and so nice! loving it!

[@MuzzaiaH]

The post raid quests are so good! Seeing and talking to everyone at the party is just such a nice resolution. (and such a good way to get the nelf heritage armour recolour imo)

[@TotoLakay]

I agree wholly with blizzard on the dragonriding. I don't mind the cooldown after landing, I see it as "fatigue" to help immersion and not having a full dragon form, kinda makes sense on the way dragonriding is for drachtyr. I love it, it was thoughtful, I have no issues.

[@Dragon-Doxin]

3:38 I guess they are thinking something like: "... because you can't give them no cast mount time if you are planning to let other classes be dracthyrs. We don't want people creating a dracthyr warrior to have a little advantage during world pvp. It's ok for druids to have that, it's their special thing and we think that should be preserved as their special thing. Just like rogues can skip "key quests" if they are smart." Or something like that. I couldn't care less tbh

[@Donovanlefferts]

The thing about the tree being in the Dragon Isles is that it’s just an expansion continent, which hasn’t historically been relevant afterward, and being the new player zone does nothing for it. Boralus is still empty. Also, there is already Valdrakken, so that’s likely where anybody would go. So it is kind of like “here’s a new city out of the way that nobody will bother going to” to night elf players. Player housing or features like that would be necessary to make it relevant.

[@downundercollecting372]

I definitely feel like the Follower dungeons need to be implemented through all of the content as going through the Legion Storyline again to get the items required for each zone being able to do those dungeons solo would allow you to complete some of the story and not feel like your skipping some steps along the way.

[@notimportant6506]

Honistly i like both dragonriding and normal flying, i wouldnt wanna lose the option to use my TLPD like the old gods intended... Actually happy i can use my mounts now in DF 10.2 for questing and stuff its way more chill to use

[@Wheeljack678]

To expand on your Follower-dungeon-using-warband-characters-train-of-thought... I think a really cool idea would simply be to use (in addition to class/race combo) their name and transmog. That way, it's less complicated but still give a little personalization to the NPCs. Worth all the time it (probably) will take to develop? Probably not, but still very cool.

[@stefanpervoost8984]

As a Night elf druid since vanilla I do have some kind of feeling Kalimdor is the place to be, but am oke with the new capital being on the Dragon Ilses, mainly as this is the new leveling place and it would hopefully feel more alive than it would in Kalimdor. The Druid class hall in Legion wasnt in Moonglade either for example and it worked just fine. BUT if the world revamp will be a thing i hope for a nice town beneath Nordrassil with portal options to hop between the two places. AND Since we dont need capitals on the dragon ilses, it just hope they make a nice little story of how Syvannas burning Valdrakken down or something. You know, for good story progression ^^

[@denielf.7169]

These are like the duty options in FFXIV that give the entire game an option to que the story specifically as a solo player. They helped me learn mechanics so i didnt feel like a burden. I recently came back to wow after near 2 years and play both at the same time, so the dungeons are really new for me.